Whenever a street or alley or a part thereof is to be put under contract for paving or repaving, the Clerk-Treasurer shall notify the owners in fee simple of real estate abutting such street or alley, and their tenants or lessees, and also all gas and telephone companies and all sewer service patrons and water consumers, by publication or otherwise, of the purpose of the City to pave and that all gas, water, sewer and underground connections must be made, prior to the paving or repaving of the street or alley, by such owners at their own expense or that the City will make the underground connections required while paving construction is in progress and assess the cost thereof as a special assessment against the property served by the underground connection according to benefits when the paving district cost is equalized and assessed. If notice is given by publication it shall be published one time in a legal newspaper published in or of general circulation in the City at least twenty days prior to the beginning of the operation by the party having the work under construction, and the notice shall state at what date connection must be made and excavation completed. After such date, permits for excavation will not be issued nor will excavation be allowed until after the completion of the pavement in such street or alley and after the formal and final acceptance thereof by the proper officials of the City.
(1958 Code § 23.21)